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Offline CG6468

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Re: I like robots as much as anyone
« Reply #25 on: July 18, 2013, 04:13:42 PM »
OK.  My hand is up.  Now what?

Your hand's up what?
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Re: I like robots as much as anyone
« Reply #26 on: July 18, 2013, 04:15:41 PM »
Wow...

Minds in the same gutter.

Who'd a thunk.

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Re: I like robots as much as anyone
« Reply #27 on: July 18, 2013, 04:22:09 PM »
Resistance is futile!
Technically the Borg are cybernetic, and not full fledged robots.

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Re: I like robots as much as anyone
« Reply #28 on: July 18, 2013, 04:26:31 PM »
Wow...

Minds in the same gutter.

Who'd a thunk.

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Re: I like robots as much as anyone
« Reply #29 on: July 18, 2013, 04:29:05 PM »
Technically the Borg are cybernetic, and not full fledged robots.

They were developed from robots somewhere in their family tree.  They're full fullflegder that robots.
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Re: I like robots as much as anyone
« Reply #30 on: July 18, 2013, 04:33:10 PM »
They were developed from robots somewhere in their family tree.  They're full fullflegder that robots.

bitchslapped for buying into the theory of evolution!!!

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Re: I like robots as much as anyone
« Reply #31 on: July 18, 2013, 04:36:49 PM »
bitchslapped for buying into the theory of evolution!!!

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Re: I like robots as much as anyone
« Reply #32 on: July 18, 2013, 04:57:14 PM »
Your hand's up what?
Mine is halfway up the same what.
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Re: I like robots as much as anyone
« Reply #33 on: July 19, 2013, 07:28:22 AM »
Mine is halfway up the same what.

Glad your typing skills were up to snuff on that one.
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Re: I like robots as much as anyone
« Reply #34 on: July 19, 2013, 12:27:54 PM »
Glad your typing skills were up to snuff on that one.
When I wrote it I thought it would be internet gold, CG...gold !
I still have hope !
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Re: I like robots as much as anyone
« Reply #35 on: July 24, 2013, 06:28:11 PM »
It was a play about human like robots written way back in the 1920's or so IIRC, Anton Chekov(sp?).

I used to read a comic way back when about a guy that fought renegade robots.



Sort of close, it was written (IIRC) by a Czech, not Chekov.  I think his name was something like Karel Capek, the "C" having some sort of Czech inflection mark on it that I think means it was a 'Ch' sound, like we pronounce 'Which,' but I don't know much about Slavic lingo variations on the Roman alphabet and I could be misremembering the mark anyway. 

Used to have a paperback copy of it around, a 60s-era paperback with both a novelette and the play in it that my Dad had picked up somewhere, though the book had some title with 'Robots' in it rather than R. U. R.
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Re: I like robots as much as anyone
« Reply #36 on: July 24, 2013, 06:51:55 PM »
Sort of close, it was written (IIRC) by a Czech, not Chekov.  I think his name was something like Karel Capek, the "C" having some sort of Czech inflection mark on it that I think means it was a 'Ch' sound, like we pronounce 'Which,' but I don't know much about Slavic lingo variations on the Roman alphabet and I could be misremembering the mark anyway. 

Used to have a paperback copy of it around, a 60s-era paperback with both a novelette and the play in it that my Dad had picked up somewhere, though the book had some title with 'Robots' in it rather than R. U. R.

Rossum's Universal Robots

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Re: I like robots as much as anyone
« Reply #37 on: July 24, 2013, 07:01:58 PM »
Rossum's Universal Robots


The Guttenberg Project has it in PDF:

http://preprints.readingroo.ms/RUR/rur.pdf
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Re: I like robots as much as anyone
« Reply #38 on: August 30, 2013, 09:38:54 AM »
This thread had potential.

It needed to finish ... but I probably wouldn't **** one...
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